In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Columbia scientists mapped brain mitochondria for the first time, revealing how energy shapes memory, mood, and mental health ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

The DAM-Decision and Memory group at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, led by Raphael Kaplan and composed of researchers from ...

The human brain stands as perhaps nature’s most extraordinary creation, constantly evolving throughout our lives in response to a complex interplay of biological and environmental influences.

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is ... The ability to physically partition the human brain at a spatial resolution comparable to neuroimaging methods enabled the ...

The parts of the brain needed to remember words have been identified. Those areas are affected by a common form of epilepsy, ...

Although this controlled environment can be useful for teasing out the roles of different variables, Goldstein and his collaborators wanted to "to explore the brain activity and human behavior in real ...

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in ...